Word: sensuous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sir Matthew Smith, 79, shy, frail British artist who spent most of 30 years in Paris absorbing the work of the Fauvists, waited until he was 46 for his first one-man show, poured onto canvas powerful landscapes and sensuous nudes in rich, lush splotches of color; in London...
...Journey is short on the supports of religion and the structure of philosophy, it is an often fascinating excursion into the literary riches of a sensuous and cultivated mind. Sitwell begins his journey at the point where he dies. Traveling with other newly dead, part way by plane, part way on a craft called the Ship of Fools, he makes a voyage calculated to charm those who share a measure of Sitwell's vast reading, just as it will surely bore those who want to get on with the business of man's soul...
Visually, The Nun's Story is almost dazingly beautiful. The colors are rich and sensuous, the light innocent and cool; and when light and color play together on the medieval stones of Bruges or Brussels, the screen glows like an awakened frame of old Vermeer. Dramatically, the film has been admirably conceived and impressively executed. Religiously, it is rather shallow. There is merit in the picture's painstaking effort to convey the physical reality of convent life, but somewhere the spiritual reality is lost. The radiant pageant of devotion ravishes the senses, but it does not touch...
...handle of an American silver mirror, done under this style's influence, depicts the body of a young girl clad in what seems to and turning along the border. Though she may be swirling reeds; her glamorized face appears on the mirror's back, her luxuriant hair twisting sound sensuous, she merely looks affected, coy and thoroughly uninviting...
...Philosophers. No technique-detective or brushstroke spy, Author Eliot is instead one of the sun philosophers who value the lights that men and artists live by. Light is the sensuous hero of Sight and Insight: "Velásquez' light is like transparent golden bees swarming the honeyed shadow, while Rogier van der Weyden's is like water over marble . . . even when stealing into Vermeer's darkest interior by a narrow window, light is welcomed as a lover. The far corners whisper hello to light. Instead of humping their backs like angry cats the shadows under the furniture...